Events in Mali despite the stride of France in stamping out militants from major cities are still uncertain. Young girls, some as low as 13 years, have reportedly taken to sex work to fend for themselves and survive in a country where the war has displaced up to 475,000 people.
According to a UN report, peacekeepers to be deployed in Mali next month could face serious risks from armed groups, Reuters reported. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the situation in Mali remains volatile, “with sporadic clashes between armed groups and continued asymmetric attacks across the three regions of the north."
France, which launched a military intervention in Mali in January, has begun troop withdrawals and will gradually hand over security responsibilities to UN peacekeepers by July 1. The Malian debacle has always been the likely resultant effect of any foreign intervention in countries across the globe taking Afghanistan and Iraq as studies.
France itself was part of the initial problem through an indirect funding of the militants.
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